Re: Second Sight

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

vector wrote:

>"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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>> True.  This sounds like a $300 board unless it's purely a labor
>> of love--in which case it might be only $230.  ;-)
>
>I would pay that *right now* if these cards were available.  A 7 MHz
>accelerator is $150 average on eBay already, and an RGB scan doubler is also
>about $150.  It would be a steal at $300 to get the functionality of both,
>with a 7-times faster CPU and no fiddling with voltage levels on the scan
>doubler like Jim Maricondo suffered through to make his XRGB-2 upscan
>converter work.

Interesting.

I've always thought that the IIgs's RGB monitor looks great.  And they
are as easy to maintain as a TV monitor, since that's what they are.
They also seem plentiful, but I suppose that could be relative.

And there seem to be "enough" ZipGS's to go around, since they
don't usually get bid up over $200...

BTW, ISTR that after all his work, Jim is still experiencing pixel
jitter from the unsynchronized IIgs DAC-to-doubler ADC clocks.

-michael

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